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...from puppyhood in a solitary, restricted environment, so that they cannot hurt themselves or be hurt, do not act as though they feel pain when tested in early maturity. Even Sherrington's "imperative protective reflex" is missing-these animals have to learn to stay away from a hot stove, and it takes repeated burns to teach them. Dr. Haugen comments: "The influence of past experience and learning is evident in any group of patients as one observes the notable differences in their reactions to stress and pain...
...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...
...have time for it"-he keeps paperwork to a minimum, hardly ever writes a memo, instead prefers to work out problems face to face. He lets underlings work out projects, does not like to "discuss loans until they are just about on the edge of the stove...
...Sundberg, suing her landlady for $7,000 damages, testified that she had cut off the restaurant's water supply, let air out of customers' tires, fired at them with a shotgun, erected a fence preventing access to a butane tank that serves the cafe's cooking stove...
Outside the Cumberland Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg...